NECC 2009

Edublogger Con - http://www.edubloggercon.com/Web+2+Smackdown+2009

Smackdown - including coveritlive notes and video
Google Images - similar images (get related images w/o duplicates)
Compfight.com - search images - efficient image search and organization
wibe7.tb - YouTube video search and organization

School Reform - Jon Becker led group discussion

How do schools reinvent themselves
There is a list of 21st century skills (Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
How does this translate into conversations about what it means for change in the classroom
How does this become a part of what we do need to do to "pass the test"
partnerships - community, school board, parents, universities, etc.

Edu Blogging - Jeff Utecht
Open discussion on blogging. Is it dead/dying? Where does Twitter fit
In some districts -teachers are banned from communicating w/ students on Facebook and some areas (PA) banned from having Facebook account

Social Media Policy & Practice for K-12 Districts" a Conversation with Ann Flynn,
Director, Education Technology,
National School Boards Association (with Kevin Jarrett & Scott McLeod)

"We know that some students use their voices inappropriately, but we don't prohibit them from speaking in school."
"We know that some students use their bodies inapporpriately, be we don't prohibit them from speaking in school."
"We treat technology as an all or none equation." - Scott McLeod

Dean Groom - Australia
In Australia, burden of responsibility has been moved to the student, but is now policy is being debated - possibly nto become shared responsibility

If punishment for breaking AUP should not be to take away internet. If you do so, you are saying that the use of the internet is not important to the education process - Craig Nansen

Should be presenting - with a school board member at school board conferences (same at admin conferences.

You Can Make A Video in 10 Minutes - Rushton Hurley
  • You can use Photostory to do a Ken Burns style movement, save it as a movie, and then add it to Movie Maker project.

Using Technology to Differentiate - Lisa Parisi and Christine Southard
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Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Schools - Chris Lehmann - UBD21c.wikispaces.com
  • Kids should be thoughtful, wise, passionate, and kind - the rest will take care of itself.
  • we teach children, not subjects. "I teach children physics", not "I teach physics"
  • inquiry driven - what are the questions we can ask together
  • student driven, but teacher-mentored. kids need adults
  • community-based - we can learn nform many
  • passionate - and it has to matter
  • integrated - the day has to make more sense
  • technology infused - ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible
  • meta-cognitive - we need to think about thinking
  • Authentic assessment - understanding driven and transparent
How Do we Get There
Prevent technology overload
WHat's good is a better question than what's new"
Tools allow us to research, collaborate, create, present, network in new ways
Tools don't teach, but they change the way we teach
Common language of teaching and learning
Common inputs
  • inquiry
  • research
  • collaboration
  • presentation
  • reflection
Common process
  • UBD - understanding by design - grant wiggins, and Jay McTighe
Common outputs
  • Rubric
Common Skills - being added soon

Understanding be Design - Template